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A leech is recognizable by the red stripes on the top of the animal. Stock Photography.
– This means that we can get a more complete picture of the blood lizard and try to understand where it is and why it is in one place, but not another, says Ulf Bjelke, from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, to SVT.
He believes that blood lice have probably aged because the cob has declined in Sweden.
– In many places where cows once grazed, there were leeches, but today there are no leeches. Now, maybe it’s the moose next, Ulf Bjelke tells SVT.
A leech generally sucks blood from frogs and fish, but it can also suck blood from warm-blooded animals such as cows and elk. It is not dangerous for a person to be bitten, but the wound can bleed for a long time.
